ask and ye shall receive, eh?

:dance::weedpoke:

OzarksFirst

Medical Marijuana Bill Filed In Missouri

Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009 @07:02am CST


(St. Louis) -- Representative Kay Meiners of Kansas City has filed a bill similar to legislation passed in 13 other state that would allow some patients to use marijuana to treat side effects of chemotherapy, HIV-AIDS and multiple sclerosis.

The bill would allow Missouri doctors to authorize their patients to use marijuana for their illnesses.

Proponents of the bill argue that if doctors are already allowed to prescribe potentially addictive painkillers, they should be allowed to prescribe marijuana.


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Thank you, Representative Meiners.

I did not know this until just now, when I was looking for this story, but Missouri had a similar bill back in 1996! Months before Prop 215 in California. :smokin:

February 22, 1996 - Jefferson City, MO, USA

A medical marijuana bill (Senate Bill 573) introduced by State Senator Joe Mosley has unanimously passed the Senate Public Health Committee. The bill states that "no criminal or civil penalty shall apply to any person for the act of possessing marijuana provided that ... a [physician] certifies in writing that the person is under professional care [and] ... needs marijuana as part of a therapeutic regimen".

I agree with the above comments that I believe Jefferson City, and other State legislatures is where these laws should be forged, although a little from DC-land in changing the federal laws would certainly help. I don't know much about Senator McCaskill, except that l loved her implicit references to Harry Truman during the elections talking about the "war profiteers". Christopher Kit Bond was gov when I lived there and everyone loved him! He is conservative, and most conservatives in these parts are not big fans of the wacky tobaccy, but if Missouri did pass this measure, my instict is he would respect the right of Jefferson City to decide this matter.